One dead and multiple injured as New York City parking garage collapses
The top floor of the high rise parking garage fell through leaving multiple people trapped, officials said.
One person has died and multiple people are said to be trapped after a parking garage collapsed in downtown New York City on Tuesday afternoon (April 18).
Terrifying footage captured the moment a woman can be heard screaming for people to "get out" as the floor fell through on the high rise building in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan.
A total of six people were hurt — four were taken to the hospital, one person died and one refused medical attention, according to fire officials. All six had been working inside the building when it collapsed around 4:10pm.
“There was a worker who was trapped on the upper floor. He was conscious and alert and moving around calling us,” John Esposito, the FDNY chief of operations, said.
“He just couldn’t get down. We were able to put firefighters up there in the building to take him down across the roof of another building.”
Parking garage collapses in New York City; reports of injuries pic.twitter.com/IKThnoIAcl
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A woman who lives next to the garage was home when the collapse caused left gaping hole in one of her second-floor apartment walls.
“There were a lot of really big bangs first," Sandy Imhoff, whose apartment shared a wall with the Ann Street garage, told The Post. "Then part of the wall started coming down.
“Bricks were coming through. The place was filling up with dirt … part of my wall is gone now.”
One worker was killed and five others were injured when the garage on Ann Street near Nassau Street caved in at 4:10 p.m., swallowing dozens of cars and sending slabs of concrete plummeting from its fourth floor into the cellar.
“I was just in shock,” Imhoff said. “I was worried for the other people in the building.”
“It felt like an earthquake,” said Liam Gaeta, a student at nearby Pace University. He said he heard “a large noise and a big rumbling, and then we all got evacuated”.
A 22-year-old who works next door to the incident said the collapse “came out of nowhere”.
They told the Post: "We heard a loud noise and we knew it wasn’t safe.
"We looked down from the window and saw a lot of smoke coming so we figured something went down but we obviously don’t know what it was. Everyone just started rushing.
"There wasn’t as big of a shake as an earthquake I would say. But it almost felt like a lift or an elevator just went down and collapsed."
WATCH: Video reportedly shows moment parking garage collapses in Lower Manhattan, New York, trapping several people pic.twitter.com/QGq6VfHzBB
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New York Mayor Eric Adams was en route, said spokesperson Fabien Levy. He described what happened as a partial collapse.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) asked the public to avoid the area of Ann Street, between Nassau and William Streets, due to an emergency response to the collapse.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) asked the public to avoid the area of Ann Street, between Nassau and William Streets, due to an emergency response to the collapse.
The New York City Sheriff’s Office uses the deck to park their cars while working at the Manhattan office.
Sheriff Anthony Miranda told The Post that his office had four cars parked there: "We accounted for all our personnel."